Have you ever looked at your writing when it was all finished and just gone "WOW, I wrote that!"
Just curious.
Pal..pondering...
Posted by ChrisOwens (Member # 1955) on :
More along the lines of: WOW, I wrote <THAT>? Ugg! What was I thinking?
Posted by Rhaythe (Member # 7857) on :
More along the lines of: "I wrote THAT?! I'm a twisted, sick individual..."
Posted by KayTi (Member # 5137) on :
I've had some of that, though almost exclusively with work that has had some time to age first. Mainly I come back to it to find that it's not as awful as I had remembered, LOL.
But yes - there is one short piece where even as I finished writing it I realized it was fantastic. Now I need to stop procrastinating and just get it out to markets!
Posted by Palaytiasdreams (Member # 8154) on :
I've done the "hang my head in embarrassment" for some past work, but then I look at what I'm writing and think "you've come a long way."
So yeah, I've done both too.
Pal...
Posted by philocinemas (Member # 8108) on :
I call that experience a Breakfast Club-Nub. I don't know if you have seen the movie, but Anthony Michael Hall's character has just finished an essay on "Who I Think I Am" and is so impressed with his own exposition that he gives himself a little punch in the shoulder. I know, I'm a movie addict, but admission is the first step (I hope you all got that really bad pun).
Posted by Palaytiasdreams (Member # 8154) on :
ROFL...I got it I got it!
I love the Breakfast Club and I know just what scene you are talking about.
Pal...pondering puttin in said movie after kids go to bed...
Posted by tchernabyelo (Member # 2651) on :
Ah yes, The Breakfast Club, where the jock gets the girl, the freak gets the girl, and the nerd... gets to write their essays for them.
Says it all.
(And I soooo totally preferred Ally Sheedy before the "makeover" at the end)
Posted by Palaytiasdreams (Member # 8154) on :
Hmmm guess that made me the 'nerd' of the feminine kind. Hehehe Guess that's why I'm here.
Pal...pondering why the guys are always the nerds...
Posted by Rhaythe (Member # 7857) on :
quote:pondering why the guys are always the nerds...
Not always. It's the cliche, but not always. In fact, I'd like to see a movie where the anti-social computer guru is an attractive female, because they DO exist. My ex-fiancee was one such person: big computer gamer, very cute, but socially inept.
Then again, 24's Chloe comes pretty close to that.
Posted by Zero (Member # 3619) on :
I've never met one. I've spent plenty of time perusing through the different schools and majors at two distinct universities (sort of the biproduct of massive indecision on my part)and, interestingly enough, the stereotypes usually hold water.
Posted by aspirit (Member # 7974) on :
Rhaythe, I remember a cute (note: female opinion), socially-rejected mechanical engineer in Real Genius (1985) and Angelina Jolie as an on-the-fringe computer expert in the 1995 movie, Hackers. More recently, Hermione Granger is a nerdy yet pretty witch in Harry Potter; she lives in a fringe society, though she is socially adept. Picking apart the list of characteristics you provided, I think people are less likely to classify a female as a nerd the more physically attractive she is, as "nerd" has a more male connotation. Think about the pretty yet bookish girls in high school: the more anti-social of these girls are called a score of unfriendly names and teased unmercifully or ignored completely, while the more attractive of these girls are "role models", not "nerds".
Back to the initial topic, I have experienced "WOW" moments for specific lines. One of these moments came after my grandfather sent me an email thanking me for a post-it note I (accidentally) left at his house years before. He had adopted the message on the note as a personal mantra, and as he had memorized the message, was going to return the post-it to me. I remember the moment I wrote the message, hoping to preserve a moment of wisdom. Seeing the message again brought on the "WOW". (Though, once again, I have forgotten the words and where I put the post-it.) That experience helped me to decide I needed to talk to my subconscious more often--that is, I needed to write more often.
